Aerial manipulation integrates the agility of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with the dexterity of robotic mechanisms, opening new paradigms for interaction in complex environments. This field ...

Professor Peng Lu and his team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), have achieved a groundbreaking milestone in aerial ...

Drones are transforming how we inspect bridges, respond to disasters, and maintain infrastructure in hard-to-reach places. But they hit a wall when it comes to physically interacting with their ...

David Saldaña is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. He leads the SwarmsLab and contributes to the Autonomous and Intelligent Robotics ...

What if drones didn’t just fly and film but could also reach out, grasp things of different shapes and sizes, and perform useful work mid-air, like cleaning up disaster zones, repairing power lines, ...

As robots have steadily expanded their operations out of the controlled environments of research labs and into the chaos of real-world architectural infrastructure, getting from point A to point B has ...